I Saw Myself: Journeys with Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai


I Saw Myself: Journeys with Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai

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Travelling into the stark deserts of Kutch, I Saw Myself explores the contemporary presence of epic love legends of the region, such as Sohini-Mehar and Sasui-Punhu, brought to throbbing verse by the powerful eighteenth-century Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. As the authors travel to villages to meet folk singers and lovers of Latifs poetry, immersing in sessions that stretch into the night, they unearth a unique, thriving love-soaked ethos in which the call to oneness rings out like a defiant manifesto for our divisive times. Retelling epics along with other tales and historical events that created the field of experience from which Shah Latifs poems sprang, I Saw Myself brings into English a selection of his finest poems. A spell is cast, of story and song, of metaphor and meaning. The insights that emerge are subtle, even startling, radical at times, solace-giving at others, but always deeply meaningful….

Publisher.: Penguin Random House India
ISBN: 9780670091669
Author.: Shabnam Virmani & Vipul Rikhi
Sub Category: Poetry
SKU: 9780670091669 Category:

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